haute cuisine
noun
haute cui·sine
ˌōt-kwi-ˈzēn 
: artful or elaborate cuisine
especially
: traditionally elaborate French cuisine
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From cozy nooks to haute cuisine, Lech’s culinary scene extends across the hamlet.
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Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025
The result is haute couture meets haute cuisine: à la carte dishes that find inspiration from real moments, from cinematic scenes to the red carpet (pricing TBD).
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Where to eat: restaurants kids will love While your urge may be to elegantly eat your way through one of the world’s great foodie cities, your wee travel companion may crave a hot dog over haute cuisine.
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Inside many of Duchêne’s faithful, masterful re-creations of haute cuisine are hints of a nervy brilliance: in a dish of oeufs mayonnaise, the normally ghost-white emulsion was bright green with herbs and topped audaciously with a tumble of tuna tartare.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
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Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025
The result is haute couture meets haute cuisine: à la carte dishes that find inspiration from real moments, from cinematic scenes to the red carpet (pricing TBD).
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Where to eat: restaurants kids will love While your urge may be to elegantly eat your way through one of the world’s great foodie cities, your wee travel companion may crave a hot dog over haute cuisine.
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Inside many of Duchêne’s faithful, masterful re-creations of haute cuisine are hints of a nervy brilliance: in a dish of oeufs mayonnaise, the normally ghost-white emulsion was bright green with herbs and topped audaciously with a tumble of tuna tartare.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
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